I'm also gonna put a song at the end of each Post, you should go buy it and listen to it.
If I recomend it, it's not a "shout out" or a "hook up" to one of my friend's bands that I try to help, it's a real song that I think you should hear...
So here goes, today's topic is going to be called:
"If Your Dad Has A Guitar Under His Bed From A Long Time Ago, You Should Tell Him To Call Me."
Now don't call me if it doesn't say "Gibson" across the top. I don't care much for the 1980's metal scene, except for Skid Row, so I don't want a Hammer, or an Ibanez, or what have you. I want pure angel baby guitars like Eric Clapton had in the 60's. If he doesn't have one under the bed, tell him to buy one, put it under his bed, and sell it to me for sentences, I'm all stocked up on sentences here. will travel.
Song: "All Your Love" - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers feat. Eric Clapton.
Sorry, my dad has a guitar but he only bought it a few years ago as some sort of midlife crisis.
ReplyDeleteI will listen to the song though, it's a nice idea to suggest music for people to listen to.
ES-355 hollow body. Used to be my dad's, now my younger brother's. Cherry red, beautiful, and finally being put to good use
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Cheers from Italy.
Luca
I own a Guitar that belonged to my father. But I don't know which brand had build it because there's nothing written on the head. Here are some pictures.
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May dad said, he bought it in a second-hand-shop when he was young.
This baby sounds amazing.
hi coco.
ReplyDeleteI own an acoustic guitar which was my mom's. Yeah, she had a guitar and I can't play it, how bad does it suck, uh? No one ever taught me how to play and I couldn't learn by myself. :(
ReplyDelete(I don't know if you'll read this anyway, but I wanted to say that felt really bad after saying that on Twitter, Brian. I mean, the South America related comment. I didn't mean to sound rude, I'm sorry ;_;)
i can honestly say the "guitar under bed" concept is amazing.
ReplyDeleteps Brendan's blog last week was awesome.
Brian,
ReplyDeleteIf you are searching for guitars that were under someone's bed (rare and vintage) I'd recomend checking out Emerald City Guitars in Seattle. www.emeraldcityguitars.com
Topic..."How good music will make a painful situation hurt a little less."
ReplyDeleteHey man, It aint my dads, but Ill trade you my '93 all white with gold hardware les paul studio ?
ReplyDeleteI love this blog already! I cant wait to hear more. You just inspired me to do a feature on my own blog; I've been wondering what to do and now it all makes sense (as a music journalist). Thanks Brian! Love what I've heard of the new record and can't wait to support you guys. Come to Albany, NY!
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I got my mom's ex boyfriend's old bass under my bed if that counts for anything. I'd check the brand, but it'd be really hard to get it out.
ReplyDelete1989, saw Skid Row support Bon Jovi at the Milton Keynes Bowl in the UK. BJ had Steve Tyler & Joe Perry in their set but it's Skid Row that blew me away. I was convinced they were going to be THE band of the 90s... and now, watching reruns of Gilmore Girls, featuring Seb Bach.
ReplyDeleteEventually, all your heroes sell out...
If it wasn't for my dad's guitar under his bed, i never would have had one to pick up. That being said, i now own many guitars, but that one is still the holy grail of my collection. A beautiful ES-125 is what i learned to play on.
ReplyDeleteSorry Brian, but this one stays in the family.
Want something to write about though? This guitar was one of the few things my father brought to the states from Mexico 30 years ago. The case served as the dinner table for him and my mom in that time. Hows that for a sentence?
I'm gonna ask him this weekend. I can't remeber the whole story right now, but I think he bought it in the late 70s, because he wrote a song for my sister on it, as she was born in 1980.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't play it anymore, he just actually plays the trumpet.
I also wanted to play this guitar, as I was about 12, then I tried it again with 15,16,18,22....but all the time I was too impatient for playing, just wanted to smash it, because my bloody finger doesn't wanted to do the same as I wanted them to do.... and it escalates as I tried to combinate playing with singing, so I gave him the guitar back as I was 25...just singing is easier :)
i have guitars...does that count...i can play all your songs :)
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact my old man has a Martin D(something) under his bed that he is looking to sell. Older model, possibly late seventies.
ReplyDeleteNot seventies at all in fact. I believe he says its a 98. But hes been known to make up numbers and names and certain historical events that might otherwise be relevant.
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ReplyDeleteNope...sorry. But I do play an old Yamaha acoustic of my mom's that was always under the bed when I was little.
ReplyDeleteOn my Dad's side of the closet under a mattress sized mound of old clothing from his youth lies an old Gibson knockoff.
ReplyDeleteThe ritual was to wait for my mom to go out with her mom, and my sister and I would wait until my dad spun those records we loved, the ones where we'd spin in sync with them, our dresses swirling out until we were too dizzy to move. After two or three of these records, my dad would become intoxicated by the sound and carefully dig out his old guitar.
She was five and I was seven and a half, and we'd clamber up beside him on the bed, starry eyed spinners with dirty mouths and scraped knees and listened with dreams in the air as he played.
The songs he played on vinyl and on guitar I forever consider the soundtracks of my childhood: Eagles, Moody Blues, Clapton (often Derek and the Dominoes), Bob Seger and the Doobie Brothers ran the melodies while Pink Floyd and the Beatles held a quiet but much needed harmony.
My dad was my favourite musician, even though he only knew a select few songs.
More than a decade has passed since that ritual has been satisfied to full extent, and a decade is not as long of a time as some, but the feeling of nostalgia I have when I pick up my guitar or spin my vinyl or hear any of the songs of my childhood is timeless
How about a '64 Johnny Smith Gibson? Not a chance your getting it though.
ReplyDeleteI learned to play on a guitar I found under my father's bed...but it was a Fender acoustic, not a Gibson. Still have it. Brings back memories.
ReplyDeleteI learned to play on my mother's old Regent acoustic, it was 2 years before I got my first electric when I was about 13 (an Ibanez...womp womp).
ReplyDeleteI've had an old Epiphone SG that has done wonders for me, same with my '65 Fender Strat.
But let's be real here man, deep down you know you want one...
http://seventyone.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/michael-angelo-batio.jpg
haha.
take care.
Me pap's guitar is hidden in his bedroom closet. As far as I can tell, it's a quite wonderful replica of an ES-335 12-string. It only comes out once or twice a year so he can dust it off and play 'Walk Don't Run.' Then we all fiddle with it for a while and it goes back. I can almost guarantee he'll never sell it though, despite the fact that he'd rather be outside playing with the '40.
ReplyDeleteLearned to play 15 years ago on Dad's '64 Fender Jaguar. What a life changing experience to pull that one out from under the bed! Still play as often as I can (picked up bass an mando too now).
ReplyDeleteMany fond memories of that Jag. Every now and again I can get him to pull it out and jam on some Cream tunes for a few mins.
got a '68? kalamazoo under my bed. you can have it when i'm finished painting it, but you gotta come to vancouver to get it.
ReplyDelete...sorry, no hidden treasure....just a regular german school acoustic guitar from '78...
ReplyDeleteI got this big, booming Oscar Schmidt, but I guess that's not what you're looking for.
ReplyDeleteHow about as a topic you write about "the importance of Canadian music"? And while you're at it, bring the band around for a couple shows in towns that are close to, but not Toronto?
Anyway, take care, and thanks for writing!
I have one passed down to me that I will never figure out how to play. It was my great uncles. it's one of those (and my ignorance is about be exposed in this explanation) 40's/50's acoustic steel slide guitar? I've heard a proper guitar enthusiast play it and it sounds amazing!! He had these puppy dog eyes and was asking me to sell to him, but...it's a family heirloom my late grandma gave it to me thinking I might learn to play one day, neither she nor I understood it's not really a beginners guitar.
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